@verge @siracusa Yeah, the thing is, that people are desperately looking for a better search engine than the enshittified Google Search, and AI was a viable candidate for achieving it.

@verge why do people keep being surprised at this? LLMs paraphrase text, they do not search for information. If there is no text to paraphrase regarding the issue in a prompt, they combine elements into similar patterns and thus produce fictitious results.

@verge @siracusa The biggest problem I have with this article is the headline. It claims you shouldn't use generative AI as a "search engine," but then proceeds to describe a historical research process that shouldn't be relegated to a search engine either! Depending on what you're searching, generative AI might work great, and often does. But historical, factual research is not one of them.
A better headline might be:
“Stop using generative AI as historical research”

@verge @stroughtonsmith I wish they made some privacy rules optional, so I could use the family's 12.9 iPad from my son as my sidecar'd external display 😐

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@verge I have signed up for this. Waiting to be accepted. It will not be great at first but I expect it to grow like Mastodon did.

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Thanks for sharing this. The Verge
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@verge Thanks, I hate it.

@verge Can't wait to see all the #Apple fanboys lick Tim Cook's boots over how Mozilla is somehow wrong.

Sorry y'all, 🍎 isn't going to date you.

@verge @jaredwhite the fact that mozilla is complaining while google is silent does not quell my fear that the end result of this change will a blink monopoly

@verge I’m for it. If it gets people to leave birdsite and I can follow friends on Threads without a Threads account. That makes for a stronger alternative. Would be great if BlueSky followed suit ( feels inevitable maybe? ).

@verge Good to see they are actively working on this. I'll be interested to see how they handle ads in the future, hopefully they won't inject them into the feeds.

@verge Despite the issue with Meta, I think it's a good thing over all. Enabling the popularity of ActivityPub can be a good thing.

Of course, as soon as something becomes mass market it will become a dumpster fire. The upside, is it does let you block out bad instances. Just as long as big companies don't go ahead and make their own version of ActivityPub to supersede the existing version.

@verge And have yet to watch season 1 and 2 🙈

@verge Such a great show. I recommend listening to the podcast as well.

@verge yay!

@verge back to the porn!